Data Sets & Distributions Vocabulary

A question that anticipates and accounts for a variety of answers

• Statistical Question

• Measures of Center

• Interquartile Range (IQR)

• Distribution

A description that shows data spread out to the left or right

• Variablility

• Spread

• Skew

• Distribution

A set of data shows the arrangement of data

• Variablility

• Spread

• Skew

• Distribution

The measure of how far the numbers in a data set are away from the mean or the median

• Variablility

• Spread

• Skew

• Distribution

mean, median, mode

• Measures of Center

• Measures of Variability

• Categorical Data

• Numerical Data

Range and the Interquartile Range (IQR)

• Measures of Center

• Measures of Variability

• Categorical Data

• Numerical Data

Data values that are not all the same

• Variablility

• Spread

• Skew

• Distribution

Numbers that are much greater or much less than the other numbers in the set

• Spread

• Quartile

• Outlier

• Range

Data that are numbers, quantities, or measurements

• Numerical Data

• Categorical Data

• Outliers

• Quartile

Data containing values that can be sorted into categories

• Numerical Data

• Categorical Data

• Outliers

• Quartile